Or perhaps you've had one of the all-natural frozen pops for an after-dinner treat at Hot and Hot Fish Club.

Soon, though, entrepreneur Brian Robinson hopes you'll be seeing 80 Pops retail shops popping up throughout Birmingham, and eventually, all around the country.

Robinson, the former vice president of franchising at Yogurt Mountain, has consulted with Chris Hastings, the James Beard Award-winning chef at Hot and Hot Fish Club, to develop the flavors for the pops.

On the streets, the pops sell for $3 each and include such out-of-the-box flavors as scuppernong, sweet corn, pineapple-cilantro and mango-habanero cheesecake, as well as the more traditional vanilla, chocolate, blackberry, and peaches and cream.

"Our ambition is to be able to take this product and, working with one of the best farm- to-table chefs in the country, Chris Hastings, create a brand that really resonates with people," Robinson said in an interview with AL.com.

"We've only been out selling for a few weeks now, but we've been in development for about 18 months."

The 80 Pops brand name refers to the 80 flavors of pops that will be available daily at the retail shops. (Tamika Moore/tmoore@al.com)TAMIKA MOORE

The 80 Pops brand name refers to the 80 flavors of fruit and creamy pops that will be available daily at the retail shops. Ten of those flavors are available on the carts.

"We have about 130 approved flavors right now," Robinson said. "We talked with Chris and his chefs about the flavor profiles and then we sat down with guidelines for the best.

"We have the look of the pop, the taste of the pop, and then the way it feels in your mouth," he added. "And then we have a one to five grading system. If we get a five on each of the three criteria, then we proceed into production and testing and actually rolling out in the market. . . .

"You are going to have a segment of the population that's interested in what I would consider the foodie-type flavors -- the pomegranate, buttermilk or habanero-mango cheesecake. You are also going to have people that want the traditional. They are going to want the chocolate or red velvet cake or classic vanilla."

Hastings, who Robinson recruited to be his culinary consultant, said the 80 Pops philosophy fits in well with the farm-to-table approach that he preaches and puts into practice at Hot and Hot Fish Club.

"He needed my expertise on flavors and recipe development to help him create a product line that is healthy, local, farm-to-table, chef-driven, high-quality and delicious," Hastings said in an earlier interview with AL.com. "It is kind of neat and fun, a different product."

Robinson's ambitious plan is to make 80 Pops the Starbucks of frozen treats, with carts and kiosks at ballparks and airports, as well display cases at grocery-store check-out lines.

This is an architectural drawing of one of the "pop-up shops'' that 80 Pops founder Brian Robinson hopes to open in markets around the country. (Courtesy of 80 Pops)

"With our production facility, we can make thousands and thousands of pops," he said. "We think we can open up stores, we can put it on trucks, we can put it on carts, we can put it in airports and music venues, athletic venues. You name it, our product can go to it."

Robinson and his 80 Pops staff are now making the pops out of a kitchen he has built in the back of his B. Robinson Trading Company in Irondale, just down the street from the Irondale Cafe.

The building also includes a garage space where Robinson – who also buys, sells and trades old automobiles -- has restored and is restoring the trucks and vans that are part of the 80 Pops fleet.

"This is a 1960 Chevy that was designed and built and rolled off the assembly line specifically to be an ice-cream truck," Robinson said as he pointed out one of his favorite finds. "There are only a couple of these left."

In markets scattered around the country, Robinson also plans to open small, environmentally friendly "pop-up shops" made out of recycled storage containers.

"This allows us to build stores in a modular fashion and take them and drop them on site," he said. "Keep it local, reduce the carbon footprint, reuse and recycle,"

80 Pops has 10 push carts that make the rounds around metro Birmingham. (Photo courtesy of 80 Pops)

First, though, 80 Pops is concentrating on Birmingham, which is already home to the established Steel City Pops.